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Alignment Summary

overall_status: critical critical_issues: 1 high_issues: 2 medium_issues: 3 low_issues: 0

Alignment Findings

  • [MEDIUM] 22 proposed items without progression.
  • Recommendation:
  • [CRITICAL] Multiple items in the AEM Evolution Map are marked as 'DONE' despite their linked Architecture Work or ADRs being in 'done' or 'pending' status rather than 'accepted'.
  • Recommendation: Revert AEM stage to 'PENDING' for all items where the linked decision is not 'accepted', or execute a governance review to promote 'done' work to 'accepted' status.
  • [HIGH] The volume of un-groomed proposed architecture work items is creating a governance bottleneck, preventing effective oversight and prioritization.
  • Recommendation: Initiate a Governance Grooming Sprint to consolidate, reject, or promote the 22 proposed items in the Architecture Work Registry.
  • [HIGH] Foundational system changes are being recorded as 'Architecture Work' (AW) and marked 'DONE' without being formalized into 'Architecture Decision Records' (ADR).
  • Recommendation: Promote high-impact Architecture Work items (Workflow Model, Knowledge Provider) into formal ADRs to ensure long-term persistence and rationale tracking.
  • [MEDIUM] Lack of a formal schema to represent and validate 'Business Intent' prevents the system from achieving its goal of connecting intent to code reality.
  • Recommendation: Prioritize aw-ideas-to-life-cas-2026-06-06-003 to define the Business Intent Schema.
  • [MEDIUM] The transition from a document-centric knowledge model to a graph-centric model is pending, leading to potential knowledge fragmentation.
  • Recommendation: Accelerate the development of the Architecture Knowledge Graph (aw-ideas-to-life-cas-2026-06-06-002).

Architecture Work Derived

  • [MEDIUM] Too many unprogressed proposals
  • [HIGH] Reconcile AEM lifecycle states: Audit all 'DONE' items and ensure they link to 'ACCEPTED' ADRs. Revert un-accepted items to 'PENDING'.
  • [HIGH] Governance Grooming Sprint: Review 22 proposed items to reduce backlog pressure below the 3:1 threshold.
  • [HIGH] Formalize ADRs for Workflow Execution Model and Knowledge Provider Abstraction to satisfy persistence rules.